24 Apr 2021 Charlottesville, VA President Charles led the three CMM compatriots that participated in the Virginia SAR ceremony celebrating President James Monroe's birthday at his home, Highland, near Jefferson's Monticello. President Jameson presented the chapter wreath and all three primary members participated in the Color Guard. Michael Dennis also participated in the musket volleys. video of wreath presentations available here.
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The latest issue of the National Genealogical Society NGS Magazine features Virginia Research, with several articles on that topic.
The NGS 2021 Family History Conference will be held online, May 19-20, and will also feature Virginia research. if you're interested, check here. 18 Apr 2021 Arlington, VA Commemorating Patriots Day, the Virginia SAR participated in a ceremony hosted by the Fairfax Resolves Chapter and attended by the CMM on Zoom. Four CMM compatriots participated, led by President Charles Jameson, who presented the chapter wreath, Color Guard Commander Michael Dennis, who participated in the filming of the Color Guard at Pohick Church, Doug Schwetke, and Bill Schwetke. All CMM participants were part of the Color Guard. Patriots Day marks the battles of Lexington and Concord, where the first shots of the American Revolution were fired. 17 Apr 2021 Culpeper, VA 30 minute video of ceremony available at this link. Today was a productive day at Culpeper Masonic Cemetery for the Culpeper Minutemen Chapter. We comemorated Patriots Day, marked General Edward Stevens' grave, and gathered and blessed Virginia Soil for Waxhaws. Six chapter members, and three dual members participated in the program. Participants in the program included Virginia SAR President Jeff Thomas, Virginia Order of Founders and Patriots of America Governor Michael Weyler, and members of six SAR chapters, two DAR Chapters, and one C.A.R. society. Edward Stevens was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1745. As a Captain he led Culpeper’s Independent Company in response to the alarm over the seizure of weapons and gunpowder from the Williamsburg Magazine in April of 1775. On December 9, 1775 he led the victorious Culpeper Minute Battalion in the crucial Battle of Great Bridge. He then was commissioned as Colonel of the 10th Virginia Regiment and fought at Brandywine and Germantown. He returned to Culpeper and was commissioned as a Brigadier General of Virginia Militia and led militia at Camden, Guilford Courthouse, and Yorktown. After our Independence was gained, Edward Stevens returned to Culpeper where he served as a state senator and died in 1820. The cemetery where he is buried is on land that he donated. The soil that was gathered will be taken by Virginia SAR President Jeff Thomas to be spread on the mass grave of Virginians in the 3rd Virginia Detachment that died at the battle of Waxhaws on May 29, 1780. This will occur in a ceremony memorializing that battle that will be conducted at the memorial on May 29, 2021. Information for your Patriot Grave Marking Medal Form. Are you tracking your accomplishments? - participate in marking a total of 15 similar graves and you're eligible for the NSSAR Patriot Grave Marking Medal.
12 Apr 2021 Mountain Run Winery, Culpeper Eight CMM members, one prospective member, and one DAR guest attend our April Chapter Meeting at Mountain Run Winery last evening. One member, Doug Schwetke, attend by Zoom from Texas as a test, which was successful. We will add Zoom attendance to future meetings. The prospective member, David Foster, is also the owner of Mountain Run Winery, and as previously, was a great host. The awwesome meal was catered by Loudelia's Catering.
The program was a talk by President Charles Jameson on the life of General Edward Stevens, whose grave we will mark this coming Saturday. The main business conducted was a review of our busy schedule ahead (see "Coming Events" above) and planing our participation. Also there was a lively discussion, led by Dale Corey, on ways to attract new members. The 245th Anniversary of the Halifax Resolves was celebrated today with a Zoom ceremony. President Charles Jameson presented the CMM wreath and he and Bill Schwetke participated in the online Color Guard. North Carolina, on April 12, 1776, authorized her delegates to the Continental Congress to vote for independence. This was the first official action by a colony calling for independence. The 83 delegates present in Halifax at the Fourth Provincial Congress unanimously adopted the Halifax Resolves, which read as follows: The Select Committee taking into Consideration the usurpations and violences attempted and committed by the King and Parliament of Britain against America, and the further Measures to be taken for frustrating the same, and for the better defence of this province reported as follows, to wit, It appears to your Committee that pursuant to the Plan concerted by the British Ministry for subjugating America, the King and Parliament of Great Britain have usurped a Power over the Persons and Properties of the People unlimited and uncontrouled and disregarding their humble Petitions for Peace, Liberty and safety, have made divers Legislative Acts, denouncing War Famine and every Species of Calamity daily employed in destroying the People and committing the most horrid devastations on the Country. That Governors in different Colonies have declared Protection to Slaves who should imbrue their Hands in the Blood of their Masters. That the Ships belonging to America are declared prizes of War and many of them have been violently seized and confiscated in consequence of which multitudes of the people have been destroyed or from easy Circumstances reduced to the most Lamentable distress. And whereas the moderation hitherto manifested by the United Colonies and their sincere desire to be reconciled to the mother Country on Constitutional Principles, have procured no mitigation of the aforesaid Wrongs and usurpations and no hopes remain of obtaining redress by those Means alone which have been hitherto tried, Your Committee are of Opinion that the house should enter into the following Resolve, to wit Resolved that the delegates for this Colony in the Continental Congress be impowered to concur with the other delegates of the other Colonies in declaring Independency, and forming foreign Alliances, resolving to this Colony the Sole, and Exclusive right of forming a Constitution and Laws for this Colony, and of appointing delegates from time to time (under the direction of a general Representation thereof to meet the delegates of the other Colonies for such purposes as shall be hereafter pointed out. The Halifax Resolves were important not only because they were the first official action calling for independence, but also because they were not unilateral recommendations. They were instead recommendations directed to all the colonies and their delegates assembled at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Virginia followed with her own recommendations soon after the adoption of the Halifax Resolution, and eventually on July 4, the final draft of the Declaration of Independence was signed. William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, and John Penn were the delegates from North Carolina who signed the Declaration of Independence. https://www.carolana.com/NC/Documents/nc_halifax_resolves.html
Today about 50 compatriots, DAR, C.A.R., friends and family members gathered at Tuckahoe Plantation to celebrate Thomas Jefferson's 278th birthday. Tuckahoe was the Randolph Family plantation where Thomas and his family lived while he was 2-7 years old. Two members of the CMM participated in the ceremony, led by President Charles Jameson who presented the chapter wreath. Both President Jameson and Bill Schwetke participated in the Color Guard. 10 Apr 2021 Stephens City, VA President Charles Jameson led the CMM contingent to the marking of Patriot William Ewing's grave by the Colonel James Wood II Chapter in Stephens City today. Also participating were Michael Dennis, Doug Schwetke (online), and Bill Schwetke. President Jameson, Michael Dennis, and Bill Schwetke participated in the Color Guard on-site and Doug Schwetke participated in the Color Guard online. President Jameson presented the chapter wreath, Bill Schwetke presented the Virginia SAR wreath, and Doug Schwetke presented the Maj K.M. van Zandt Chapter wreath online. Michael Dennis participated in the musket volleys. 65 people attended or participated in the grave marking including several descendants of William Ewing and many members of the local community. William's wife, Elizabeth, is also a patriot and her grave will be marked at a later date. Information for your Patriot Grave Marking Medal Form. Are you tracking your accomplishments? - participate in marking a total of 15 similar graves and you're eligible for the NSSAR Patriot Grave Marking Medal.
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